: wrote:
: >
: > Well....this evening I went to boot up my computer I heard a loud
: > click, click, click noise coming from the hard drive. The system
: > summary screen booted up and this [slave] drive failed the boot
: > test. It was not "seen".
: >
: > After rebooting, the clicking stopped and the drive was recognized.
I
: > ran smart tests and it showed no anomolies ie. it passed all the
: > tests.
: >
: > How could the drive make this noise, fail to be recognize yet pass
the
: > diagnostic tests?
:
: It's on its way out. I'd be surprised if it survived another dozen
: reboots.
I ran the event viewer and this is what showed up, probably at the time
I could not boot up. I don't know why after several boots it was fine
but that one time it wouldn't boot. I already got an RMA going and I
backed up the drive, what a PIA!!
"Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 2007-10-19
Time: 10:20:29 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ASUS
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\D.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 09 04 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 03 01 00 00 85 01 00 c0 ....…..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 37 42 04 00 00 00 00 00 7B......
0030: ff ff ff ff 04 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 @.......
0040: ff 20 00 00 02 01 00 20 ÿ .....
0048: 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ....(...
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0058: 00 00 00 00 b8 5d 2d 86 ....¸]-†
0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0068: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........"
